Researching Tricky Queries; Tips on what to do when you can't find what you're looking for (Part 3)

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Okay great, you say, but my topic is so tricky that even these tips haven’t helped.  Am I just out of luck?

No!  Buckle your seatbelts intrepid researchers, because here are my advanced research tips.

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(This series continues in Part 4: here)

Researching Tricky Queries; Tips on what to do when you can't find what you're looking for (Part 4)

When even the tips I've covered thusfar haven't helped and you're still staring at a reference page much too short to write a legitimate paper with, do not yet despair. I've got a few more tricks up my sleeve that might just work.

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The World on His Wrist / by bendingsignpost (PG-13)

Title:  The World on His Wrist
Author: bendingsignpost aka bendingsignpost 
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Genre:  AU, SciFi
Length: Long (Words:~65.4k)
Admin Note: rec'd on TVTropes, rec'd on fancake

Author's Summary:
First, he is shot in Afghanistan. Second, he wakes to a phone call in Chelmsford, Essex. Third is pain, fourth is normalcy, fifth is agony and sixth is confusion. By the eighth, he's lost track. (John-centric AU)

Review:
This is a brilliant, amazing, wonderful fic.  It's very confusing at first but gets better after the prologue.  The concept reminds me a lot of the short-lived TV show Awake, though this fic came first.  Basically, every time John wakes up, its to 1 randomly selected life in progress (out of four that he's living concurrently).  One's in Afghanistan, one's with Sherlock, and two others are more mundane.  John uses different watches on different wrists to tell immediately upon waking which of the lives he's in.  This fic juggles all sorts of complicated issues like John having to struggle to keep the lives as close to in sync as possible since he's not always awake for the same amount of time in each one before he falls asleep, even for a catnap, and wakes up in another.  Plus, John's proactive, making the plot happen with his choices, gathering information across his lives, and using it to get things he cares about done.  I love the plot, with John coming around to view his predicament as an almost superpower to put him on level with Sherlock's observation skills.  It's such a complex fic and so, so well written.

The World on His Wrist (on LJ) (on AO3) and sequel Elsewhere Come Morning (also on LJ) (on AO3)